Going outside should be classified R18 if you ask me
Video review transcript (lightly edited for grammar): Les Liaisons Dangereuses – I never know how you pronounce that. Dangerous Liaisons at the National Theatre, starring Aidan Turner and Lesley Manville, is superb. I’m just going to come straight out and say it. The chemistry between the two leads is fantastic. There’s a delightful mixture of […]
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
I’ve watched a lot of movies in my life. During the winter break of 1998, I started rating them on IMDB. I tried to remember all the movies I’d seen up to that point and rated those. I have rated every movie I’ve seen since. For years …
The one where the director watches a scoreless soccer game on TV with his dad, a soccer game his dad coached, and they discuss the game, players, era, and political context… difference in rules and tactics between then (1988) and now, the political implications of this army-vs-police game and the risks of being its referee. […]
Today’s first recording starts with a trail for Young Hairdresser of the Year and 60 Seconds of News. One of the stories is about a “big expansion of Iran’s nuclear programme”. Sigh. Then it’s a repeat of Doctor Who – Partners in Crime. Media Centre Description: Donna is determined to find the Doctor again – even if […]
The kid is from a forgotten Neverending Story reboot, and has worked consistently. Our director plays the star’s driver/handler, also trying to break into the industry with his experimental film called The Stupidity of God. Good cast, good fun. Matrix Macaulay: Mark Peranson in (of course) Cinema Scope: It takes a while to sink in […]
By Ben Miller I won't lie and say you will absolutely enjoy Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama. In fact, there's a pretty good chance you will either hate it, or feel repulsed having watched it. This film lives in an uncomfortable and awkward world of anxiety which will turn many viewers off. This film exists in an impossible world to market a film. You can't delve too much into the guts of the story without revealing the main conflict. You also can't spoil the parts of the film that come fr...
A quick update on my interrupted trawl through Flux. I watched episode 5 some weeks ago. I did intend to write about it, but I got distracted — and in the intervening time the episode has almost completely slipped away … Continue reading →
Over the last few years, I have highlighted a smattering of the vast range of spectacular scholarship on science fiction in my reviews and Exploration Log series that intrigue me. Today I have an interview with Matthew I. Thompson, author of the brand new book On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s (2026). Due to … Continue reading Exploration Log 13: Interview with Matthew I. Thompson, author of On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s (2026)
Reasons to go see Project Hail MaryA faithful adaption of a well loved book. Don’t want to see a movie? read the bookMore excellent comedy work from Ryan GoslingGood Sci Fi results might beget more good sci fi movies? We can hope.
I crunching the running times of 36,431 movies to work out why it feels like movies are getting longer, and to test the theory that the two-hour movie is what we should all expect
I thought I’d check out Deadloch, an Aussie cop show that was reputed to be a well-done comic riff on deadly serious shows like Broadchurch (which my wife and I enjoyed a few years back), and sure enough it seems very enjoyable. But it uses some vocabulary I wasn’t familiar with; in the first few […]
Spectacular staging is a clear highlight of The Lost Boys, diverting attention from the rather dreary rock score. Note: having attended an early preview performance, this review is more of a general […]
One of the promotional posters for The Fire Raven [匿杀] dir. Sam Quah, 2025) relies on red string binding the film’s characters together.
Got my comp of TROUBLE IN PARADISE from Criterion (4K and Blu). Made a video essay for this one with editor Stephen C. Horne. Farran Smith Nehme wrote the booklet essay — all chums together! Stephen also directed me to this amazing review of last year’s long pieces on THE THREE/FOUR MUSKETEERS for Criterion and […]
Did the much-awaited Blood River manage to surpass its predecessor, the surprise new-wuxia hit, The Blood of Youth?
I’ve long wanted to watch the British miniseries, Edward the King (1975) (aka Edward the
I’ve been waiting for this to be unleashed… and here it is. The 2026 winner of the Best Animation at the National Student Emmys is Love & Gold, written and directed by Connor VanDyke and produced by Jaysen Duckworth. Representing BYU, it’s the university’s fifth consecutive win in this category and has now been released in full on YouTube. Watching it in full for the first time today, this animated short certainly does have winner written all over it – from start to finish. Before I take ...
Finally got around to seeing Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas. What a film. Magnificent cinematography and color grading. Performances were monumental. Americana for the ages (even through the eyes of a German director). The Criterion 4k remaster is where it’s at.
★★★★★ - A friendly world-dominating AI vs. a surly nun. A tale of our dependence on technology and the lengths people will go to feel appreciated, wrapped in the weirdest take on the Holy Grail I've ever seen. Seriously absurd, and occasionally absurdly serious.
